Why This Potato Is Better for You Than That Potato
by Victor Marchione, MD

Here’s some health news out of Washington, DC: organic potatoes may contain more nutrients than conventional potatoes. There’s been a debate going on for years now about whether organic vegetables and fruits are any healthier for you than conventional produce. Results from clinical trials have generally shown that organic, natural foods do seem to offer more in the way of nutrition.

Not much is written about health benefits of pistachios — although many people eat these delicious nuts. More attention seems to be paid to other nuts such as almonds or peanuts. Pistachios, however, are quite nutritious, it turns out. A recent study has found this healing food to be a nutrient-dense nut with a heart-healthy fatty-acid profile, as well as protein, dietary fiber, potassium, magnesium, vitamin K, tocopherols, and a number of phytochemicals. That’s quite a list!

For the last four months, Chinese hackers have persistently attacked The New York Times, infiltrating its computer systems and getting passwords for its reporters and other employees.

After surreptitiously tracking the intruders to study their movements and help erect better defenses to block them, The Times and computer security experts have expelled the attackers and kept them from breaking back in.

The timing of the attacks coincided with the reporting for a Times investigation, published online on Oct. 25, that found that the relatives of Wen Jiabao, China’s prime minister, had accumulated a fortune worth several billion dollars through business dealings.

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Tax dodging is a global scandal. Tax raises money to fund public services, to fight poverty and to redistribute wealth in society. Yet for many multinational companies like Amazon, Google and Starbucks, paying tax is now often simply a matter of choice.Despite hitting the headlines by talking tough on tax, this government is planning new changes to the UK’s tax laws to be introduced in the Budget in March which would give a green light to big business to avoid billions in tax.

Every year the UK government loses £25 billion in revenue to tax avoidance by big business and rich individuals. In response to growing public anger, George Osborne has called tax avoidance “morally repugnant” and claimed the government is now leading a tough clampdown on corporate tax avoiders.

Yet our research has exposed a very different story. Rather than tackling tax avoidance, the centrepiece of the government’s plans would have had little or no impact on some of the biggest recent tax scandals, from Amazon, Google, Starbucks all the way through to Jimmy Carr. Instead it defines tax avoidance so narrowly that it would send a clear signal to big business to keep on avoiding billions in tax.

Instead, the government could introduce tough rules, aimed at eliminating tax avoidance in the UK. According to our estimates this alone could recover as much as £5.5 billion every year.

This year we will be campaigning for changes in the UK, to change our tax rules and abolish our tax havens, so that the UK no longer fuels tax dodging around the world.

If the money hidden from tax authorities by rich individuals in tax havens was taxed instead it could generate £180 billion a year in tax revenue. This sum is more than twice the amount all rich countries give in aid every year. The UK is at the heart of the offshore system that allows multinational companies to act as corporate parasites, sucking profits out of countries around the world.

The forcible expropriation of land from people by states and corporations – ‘land grabbing’ – is occurring on a phenomenal scale and affects every continent and most countries of the ‘South’. Land grabs and the forced displacement of populations, including through state and corporate violence, have been justified through economic development, human development, the extraction of natural resources, the use of land for economic growth, among many other factors. Yet deforestation and land grabs in Indonesia, slum clearances and land grabs throughout India, environmental destruction and population displacements in the Amazon and in various countries of southern America, and massive land grabs, including through natural resource mining across the African continent, have created misery and havoc on a large scale for many populations. In some places, land grabs have gone hand in hand with environmental destruction, conflict and war, forced labour, child labour, illegal expropriation of natural resources, widespread poverty and serious violations and abuses of human rights.

This event explores land grabbing as a global phenomenon that some writers have described as a new form of ‘primitive accumulation’ and ‘accumulation by dispossession’. The origins of land grabbing and its consequences for human rights, including indirect causes related to environmental destruction and climate change, are discussed.

Home, Garden & Food

40 handy lemon tips

4 March 2011

Cleaning solutions and beauty tips for natural (and cheap) recipes you can try at home.

Friends of the Earth can’t claim to have tried all of the tips ourselves, but they’re based on commonly accepted wisdom. You might want to exercise caution with tips involving ingesting lemon juice or applying it to the skin, especially if you have persistent medical conditions.

Health & Beauty

1. Hair – For extra shine, dilute 1 tsp lemon juice in a cup of water, and use to rinse your hair after shampooing.

2. Hands – Remove smells and stains with a rub of lemon juice.

3. Nails – Whiten fingernails with a rub from a wedge of lemon.

4. Rough elbows – Hold your elbow in half a lemon for a few mins, then rinse.

5. Spots – Wet a paper towel with lemon juice and apply to help treat spots and blackheads.

Over the last few weeks, I’ve been telling you about some of our life-saving work that PETA members’ support has helped make possible.

Every single victory during the past year – from exposing horrific abuse of ducks and geese on a French foie gras farm to helping to convince the UK government to reject an appeal to build a facility in Yorkshire that would have bred hundreds of dogs for use in deadly laboratory experiments – was achieved through the generosity of our compassionate members.

But despite so many recent successes, animals are still being confined to tiny, filthy cages on factory farms; electrocuted, strangled and even skinned alive for “fashion”; cut open, poisoned and mutilated in horrific experiments; and beaten and kept in chains in order to force them to perform for human “entertainment”.

Lacey Banghard might have only just been voted out of the Celebrity Big Brother house, but she’s already teamed up with PETA to stand up for what she believes in – safe sex for cats and dogs! Read more.

PETA and Animals Rights

Why Animal Rights?

Almost all of us grew up eating meat, wearing leather, and going to circuses and zoos. We never considered the impact of these actions on the animals involved. For whatever reason, you are now asking the question: why should animals have rights? Learn more.

Security Council is studying climate change’s link to securityThe United Nations Security Council is scheduled to meet today about the effects of climate change on global security. Joachim Schellnhuber of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research will brief members on a “reality that cannot be washed away” that is likely to spawn “all kinds of unrest and revolutions, with the export of angry and hungry people to the industrialized countries.” Bloomberg (2/14)

C: alleluia, as most of us, see only environmental issues in terms of what might bring upon humans directly. To be as stupid to think that consequences of producing posion, even if producing remedy, will have as ultimately impossibly diverted effect.

It is almost the main current, that say what suit to human, as human a little pests ready to eat everything like if mother earth and brothers others were a cake for them to be prepared, his dining oooye.

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Death threats to UK’s top Muslim MP who voted for gay marriage

Police have told Sadiq Khan he should review the security around him and his family following the Commons vote

Officers in his Tooting constituency in London have been put on high alert

Sadiq Khan, Labour’s Shadow Justice Secretary, has received death threats after voting in favour of gay marriage

Britain’s most senior Muslim MP has received death threats after voting in favour of gay marriage.

Police have told Sadiq Khan, Labour’s Shadow Justice Secretary, that the threats are credible enough that he should review the security around him and his family following the Commons vote.

Officers in his Tooting constituency in London have been put on high alert, and will respond ‘extra-quick’ should an incident be reported at his home.

The Metropolitan Police has also advised Mr Khan, 42, that they may put more officers around him if further threats are made.

He told one friend he was especially concerned about those close to him, saying: ‘My family do not need to suffer for what I have to do for my job.

‘I’ve not had threats like this before.’

Mr Khan was among 400 MPs, five of them Muslim, who voted in favour of the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill at the beginning of this month.

It is believed Mr Khan, who was campaign manager for Ed Miliband’s successful leadership bid, has been singled out as he is the most prominent Muslim MP.

Mr Khan – who became Britain’s first Muslim Minister to attend Cabinet in the last Government – has been condemned by British-based hardline clerics, who have accused him of ‘selling out’ his religion.

Mufti Muhammed Aslam Naqshbandi Bandhalevi, who is the head imam of the Jamia Islamia Rizvia mosque in Bradford, has issued a fatwa, or ruling, declaring Mr Khan an ‘apostate’ from Islam and said he should ‘repent before Allah’.

Some veiled threats against all the Muslim MPs who backed gay marriage are visible online.

C: thank you brother, even if that it shows that depending on the vote for a just decision striking tyrants is as it is undemocratic.

I d like to be the one striking them with punishment over that kinda fatwa issuing.

thank you brother.

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I chose my word, hypocrisy make us forget how people ruin other people life, hip, hope and everything just through the issuance of law, policies, practises and theories. Without forgetting stud pinned tradition and its demonization, by the ones who pretend prudery pursuing whereas it is torture for living- parasites imitation ammunition.

Andes glaciers melting at high speedA study reports that glaciers in the Andes mountain range of South America are retreating at rates faster than any in the past 300 years — between 30% and 50% since the 1970s — and “will probably completely disappear within the coming decades,” said lead author Antoine Rabatel. Among the areas likely to be most affected are the Santa River valley in Peru, and the city of La Paz in Bolivia. BBC (1/23)

◾Cost of combating warming keeps rising
To halt global temperature rise, countries will need to commit an additional estimated $700 billion each year for renewable energy and other low-carbon and high-efficiency technologies, according to a report for the World Economic Forum. The World Bank projects warming of 4 degrees Celsius this century. Bloomberg (1/21), The New York Times (tiered subscription model) (1/21) LinkedIn Facebook Twitter Email this Story

January 21, 2013 | News covering the UN and the world

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Mohamed, THE prophet of Islam, ‘married’ a 6-year-old. Millions are preaching the sanctity of child marriages and of pedophilia as a result. Please, check the web, to realize that it is not in any case an exaggeration. ISLAM PREACHING «MARRIAGES» OF ADULTS WITH CHILDREN. BAN THE PREACHING OF CHILD MARRIAGE. […]

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SHARIA LAWS All the more because staying Muslim is deadly compulsory in Muslim countries, I want here to precise again, that of course, not all Muslims are favourable to this version of Islam and could lay their faith on the Coran only or would stop regarding the life of Islam’s prophet as being an […]

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Sexual abuse and assault awareness and prevention law aimed at children. Extract from: http://www.erinmerryn.net/erins-law.html?goback=%2Egde_3978572_member_252283603 What does Erin’s Law do? With respect to the renewal of a Standard Teaching Certificate, provides that continuing professional development activities may include participating in or presenti […]

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WHO WOULD LIKE CHINA AND RUSSIA TO BECOME THEIR BIG BROTHE’S China just going from undemocratic to dictatorial in on move or two. and WHAT YOU MIGHT NOT HAVE UNDERSTOOD ABOUT CHINA CENSORSHIP, half of the western content have been blocked from viewing, and note, now if you are caught (surfing google or many others, […]

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Transgender’s enforcement:Transgender’s enforcement building: the children who are operated because they identify to a fake and permissive notion of what is adequate for the opposite sex, are the victims of pro-Nazi, pro-eugenics promoters. The children who are operated because they identify to a fake and permissive notion of what is adequate for the oppos […]

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